In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners, Payments Total $1 Million
2015 is the year that SoundCloud needs to implement a monetization strategy – both for itself and for the creators that have made the platform so popular. Today the company. Continue reading
Benji Rogers, Founder And President Of PledgeMusic, Looks Back On 2014
Benji Rogers, Founder and President of PledgeMusic joins us today for Hypebot.com's 2014 Year End Virtual Panel. Rogers has a hopeful outlook for the collaboration between artists and music streaming. Continue reading
Dave Kusek Of The New Artist Model Looks Back On 2014 [Our Virtual Panel]
Dave Kusek is the founder of the New Artist Model online music business school and former CEO and founder of Berklee Online. Kusek is also the co-author of one of. Continue reading
Why It Is Time To Make YouTube Look Less Like Spotify And More Like Pandora
By Mark Mulligan on Music Industry Blog 2014 has been a dramatic year for the music industry and may prove to be one of its most significant. The brief history. Continue reading
Why Streaming (Done Right) Will Save the Music Business
By Jason Epstein and Rob Glaser, members of the board of directors of Rhapsody. “There’s somethin’ happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear … ” — Stephen Stills When. Continue reading
4 Jobs You Unknowingly Take On When You Become a Band Manager
By Shaine Freeman on Sonicbids Blog Great managers are hard to find – especially when you consider that it's one of the few professions where no experience or license is required to negotiate contracts and. Continue reading
Could Half of Music Royalties Pay for Music We Would Rather Skip Over Than Listen To?
By David Touve of Rockonomic In this post I am going to highlight what may be one of the great ironies of how we pay for music in the “music as a. Continue reading
Rdio CEO On Taylor Swift and the Spotify vs. YouTube Payment Conondrum
Some simple simple statements just hit the mail on the head, as do these from Rdio CEO Anthony Bay at the recent Web Summit. On Spotify vs. YouTube Payments: “[Artists] say. Continue reading
Spotify Says They’d Pay Taylor Swift $6 million, Label Says She Got Just 12% Of That
While the initial burn of Taylor Swift pulling her music from one of the industry's leading streaming services may be cooling slightly, the long distance conversation between Scott Borchetta, the CEO. Continue reading
